Carve

[Pennington]

Yeah, I know, carve is bad to use. But damnit, i'm lazy, and the map is gonna be fairly small. I'm not using prop textures or anything either. My prob is, It doesn't seem to be working. Is this something with the new version of hammer or something? Whenever i select my surface and hit carve, it freakin bogs down. A billion dots replace parts of the surface, and the texture is distorted in others. WHen i try to carve, it just turns everything bright red and nothing is carved. Any ideas?

 

[Raeven0]

It's a message from Valve that carving is evil.

Because it is.

I can direct you to tutorials on the Clip Tool if you like.

 

[^Ben]

You probably have something else carved and it's trying to carve half your map.

Wanna become a good mapper? Learn to use clip.

 

[Raeven0]

And vertex manipulation. That's a valuable skill too.

 

[Cunbelin]

Seriously just don't bother with it, take the time to learn to live without it and you will be much happier. What is it you are trying to do that you feel needs to use a boolean operation ?

 

[Sgt. Redneck]

They are right carving does suck, and makes it only harder to get the textures nice, but are you sure you are selecting the object you wish to carve with?